Editor’s note: Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks died of unspecified causes in West Palm Beach on Tuesday night. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer had lived throughout Palm Beach County, from the island to north county, and had a condo on Flagler Drive at the time of his death. He was 69.

The West Palm Beach Police Department issued this statement:

On January 24, 2107, at 1802 hours (8:02 p.m.), officers responded to the (Flagler Drive address) due to a death investigation. The deceased was identified as Claude Hudson Trucks Jr.. Foul play is not suspected, and the case is still under investigation.

And the island can add the drummer for rock and roll's greatest jammin' blues band to its roster of notable residents.

Butch Trucks, one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers - and Melinda, his wife of some 24 years, are the latest on the short list of music legends to call Palm Beach home, joining tropical troubadour Jimmy Buffett and Scottish rocker Rod Stewart.

The 52-year-old drummer said just over a year ago that the couple would stay in their Admiral's Cove home despite Melinda's hankering to live near her friends on this exclusive isle. But they're here now, much to the surprise - and maybe chagrin - of Town Council members who turned down the couple's request this week a to enlarge an 8-foot-wide lap pool at their Dunbar Road home.

"I love the drums," Mayor Paul Ilyinsky said after the Town Council meeting, upon learning the identity of the applicant listed as "Claude Trucks" - the given name of the musician who helped propel the Allman Brothers Band to superstardom in the 1970s.

"Gosh, if I had known that, I would have given him his pool," Town Council President Lesly Smith quipped upon learning the applicant's identity as she packed up her things after the daylong meeting. "Jackie Albarran [Trucks' architect] kept saying they were nice people, but she didn't say who they were."

Neither did their attorney, James Brindell, during the brief public hearing in council chambers Tuesday evening. The council did allow the couple to go forward with a plan to make improvements to their roof. But plans to widen the pool by 5 feet will have to wait - at least for now.

Truck's neighbor - insurance broker C. Dimick Reese Jr., a member of the island's first pioneer family - objected to widening the pool. After reading Reese's letter, the council voted to defer Truck's request for a month. That will give the neighbors time to work out a compromise on the size and location of the side - yard pool.

Butch Trucks, a native of Jacksonville, met his Tennessee-born artist wife at a concert in 1974 and the two have been together ever since. They moved to Palm Beach County in 1990, living in Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter before their latest move to Palm Beach.

Trucks, who also launched a band called Frogwings, continues to tour with the Allman Brothers Band, which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

Frogwings, which features Trucks' slide guitarist nephew Derek Trucks, appeared at SunFest '98, the annual lakefront music festival in West Palm Beach.